Team 5712: Hemlock's Gray Matter

Team 5712 Hemlock's Gray Matter is a FIRST Robotics Competition team from Hemlock, MI, USA. The team was founded in 2015 and was the start of the robotics program at Hemlock Public Schools. In Team 5712's short history, they have already won many awards including: two 2015 District Event Winner awards, the 2015 Rookie All Star award, and the 2016 Motorola Quality Award.

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As in past games, two alliances of three individual teams and their robots compete on a field to score "match" point to win the game and ranking points to advance to playoff rounds. The game has a steampunk theme and teams are required to shoot wiffleballs which represent fuel into a simulated boiler which transfers the generated steam into an airship in the middle of the field. More information can be found on Wikipedia

FIRST Stronghold is the game for the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition. The game is played by two alliances of three teams each, and involves breaching the opponents’ defenses, known as outer works, and capturing their tower by first firing “boulders” (small foam balls) at it and then surrounding or scaling the tower using rungs. More Information can be found on Wikipedia.

​Recycle Rush was the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition game. It involves picking up and stacking totes on scoring platforms, putting pool noodles ("litter") inside recycling containers, and putting the containers on top of scoring stacks of totes. There is also a coopertition aspect of the game where both alliances of teams can pool their totes and stack them on a step dividing the field to each gain twenty points. More information can be found on Wikipedia.